The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age : Comparative Approaches (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions)

Levitin, Dmitri (EDT)/ Maclean, Ian (EDT)

Brill（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 446 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004462328
• DDC分類 001.2094

Full Description

Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age is the first attempt to adopt a comparative approach to this phenomenon. An international team of scholars explores the differences and similarities - across time and place - in how the study and use of ancient texts and ideas shaped a wide range of fields: nascent classics, sexuality, chronology, metrology, the study of the soul, medicine, the history of Judaeo-Christian interaction, and biblical criticism. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life.

Contributors: Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart.

Contents

List of Figures

 Introduction

  Dmitri Levitin

PART 1

Secular Classical Scholarship

1  National Traditions in Scholarship

 The French and Dutch Schools of Classical Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

  Floris Verhaart

2 Sex and the Classics

 The Approaches of Early Modern Humanists to Ancient Sexuality

  Karen Hollewand

PART 2

The Arts

3 "Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth"

 Chronological Debates over the Period of Christ's Rest in the Tomb in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  C. Philipp E. Nothaft

4 The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective

 A Preliminary Investigation

  Cesare Pastorino

5 The Pentateuch and the Immortality of the Soul in England and the Dutch Republic

 The Confessionalisation of a Claim

  Michelle Pfeffer

PART 3

Medicine

6 Sacred Medicine in Early Modern Europe

  Jetze Touber

7 The Reception of Hippocrates by Physicians at the End of the Seventeenth Century

 A Comparative Study

  Ian Maclean

PART 4

Theology

8 What's in a Name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c.1500-1700

  Jan Machielsen

9 Publishing a Prohibited Criticism

 Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and Erudition in Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Culture

  Timothy Twining

10 European Scholarship on the Formation of the New Testament Canon, c.1700

 Polemic, Erudition, Emulation

  Dmitri Levitin

Index